Johnny Depp's lawyers have played video footage in a London courtroom that they allege shows his ex-wife Amber Heard "attacked" her sister.
Key points:
- Johnny Depp is suing The Sun over a 2018 article that claimed he is a "wife beater"
- His lawyers showed a surprise video in court that they allege shows Ms Heard assaulted her sister
- Ms Heard made 14 allegations of violence against Johnny Depp between 2013 and 2016
In his libel suit against a British tabloid that labelled the actor a "wife beater", Mr Depp's lawyers said they received the video from a "confidential" source on Thursday night (local time), hours after Ms Heard's sister, Whitney Henriquez, testified in court.
Ms Henriquez told the court she had never been attacked by Ms Heard, nor was she frightened of her.
Mr Depp, 57, is suing News Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Sun, and the newspaper's executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article.
Mr Depp has told the court that he was the one abused by Ms Heard and that she had a history of being violent against him.
The Sun's defence relies on 14 allegations made by Ms Heard of violence allegedly perpetrated Mr Depp between 2013 and 2016, in settings as varied as a rented house in Australia, his private island in the Bahamas and a private jet.
The video at the heart of Friday's court proceedings was said to be unused reality TV footage.
It is unclear when the footage was filmed.
It showed Ms Henriquez by a pool with friends, with a person heard saying, "did you get in a fight or something?" and "I can't believe Amber beat your a**".
Another woman appears to inspect Ms Henriquez's cheek and arm, and Ms Henriquez said in the video that she is not going to talk about it.
After the video was shown in court, Ms Henriquez said the argument with her sister had been a verbal one and that her friends were "trying to make a very, very boring story more interesting".
Ms Henriquez also denied that she had any injuries when the video was recorded.
She said her friends were "looking for injuries that were not there".
Mr Depp's lawyer, David Sherborne, alleged that Ms Heard assaulted her sister and that injuries to Ms Henriquez were being examined on the tape.
In her testimony on Thursday (local time), Ms Henriquez said Mr Depp hit Ms Heard "multiple times" during an alleged incident at the couple's Los Angeles apartment in March 2015.
She also said that her sister had punched Mr Depp on that occasion but only to defend her, because she believed Mr Depp was going to push her down the stairs.
Mr Sherborne said Ms Henriquez had "tailored" her evidence "to meet" her sister's version of events.
Depp's employees back his version of events
In four days of testimony this week, Ms Heard, 34, accused Mr Depp of an array of acts of violence, including throwing bottles at her "like grenades" and headbutting her.
She has claimed she often feared for her life during their relationship.
During the first two weeks of trial testimony at London's High Court, judge Andrew Nicol heard from Mr Depp and from several current or former employees who backed his version of events.
Ms Heard said in written evidence that at various times during her and Mr Depp's relationship she endured "punching, slapping, kicking, head-butting and choking".
She said some incidents were so severe she was "afraid he was going to kill me, either intentionally or just by losing control and going too far".
Ms Heard said Mr Depp blamed his actions on "a self-created third party" that he referred to as "the monster".
Mr Depp and Ms Heard met on the set of the film The Rum Diary, released in 2011 and married in 2015 in Los Angeles.
Ms Heard filed for divorce the following year, and it was finalised in 2017.
The case is due to finish next week with closing submissions from both sides' legal teams on Monday and Tuesday.
AP
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2020-07-24 18:00:00Z
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